Well, I got some bad news at the pre-surgery Treatment Planning conference. After the latest CT scans were read and the lung biopsy came back, the picture was far bleaker than we had initially believed. I have decided not to go through with the surgery, because it would cause a dramatic reduction in quality of life and function for not many extra months, but instead to go for palliative chemotherapy. I see the medical oncologist tomorrow (Tuesday).

The article about me from the St. Pete Times had a number of factual errors because I wasn't up to being interviewed. Unfortunately, there is no truth to the statement that the tumors had shrunk; my campaign manager was misinterpreting the fact that the surgery time, initially estimated at 10 hours, was re-estimated to be about 3 hours.

Shelly